History of the Americas

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Baltimore, Maryland, is a historical treasure trove, a lively canvas on which tales of colonial times, maritime prowess, and modern reinvention converge.

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In the waning days of the Civil War,  McNeill's Rangers launched a daring raid against the Union Army in the hopes of reinvigorating the Confederacy.

Descubre la intensa lucha entre el bien y el mal en la Argentina de principios del siglo XX a través de El hombre del sótano y otros relatos policiales.

En este libro profundo y clarificador, Jorge Argüello explica como la potencia norteamericana se encuentra profundamente dividida, tironeada entre dos almas: media sociedad reclama una restauración nostálgica que recupere un pasado dorado, mientras que otra busca con entusiasmo abrirse a lo nuevo, al futuro.

La vida y obra de José Mexía Lequerica han sido tratadas por diversos historiadores, con énfasis en sus tres últimos años de vida cuando brilló como diputado en las Cortes de Cádiz.

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This carefully crafted collection of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor's works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Mother of Washington and her TimesReminiscences of Peace and WarThe Birth of the Nation: Jamestown, 1607Autobiography of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor - My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life

Desenterré esta historia en diciembre de 1984, cuando la dictadura militar me envió a la Cuarta Región en calidad de relegado político.

The Men Behind the Legacy gathers complete biographical sketches, speeches, articles, and historical records concerning the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence.

"e;This is the Story of Sinopah, a Blackfoot Indian boy; he who afterward became the great chief Pitamakan, or, as we say, the Running Eagle.

The following account of the Central Eskimo contains chiefly the results of the author's own observations and collections made during a journey to Cumberland Sound and Davis Strait, supplemented by extracts from the reports of other travelers.

Ganz allmählich tritt seit einem halben Jahrhundert ein neues Bewusstsein in unsere Welt, ein Bewusstsein, das sich mit Begriffen wie transzendental und spirituell bezeichnen lässt.

The principal monuments of the once powerful Iroquois are their myths and folklore, with the language in which they are embodied.

Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer.

En Derumbamiento de los Mundos, sumergete en un viaje a través del tiempo hasta las arenas místicas del antiguo Egipto, donde los dioses gobiernan y los destinos de los hombres se tejen con los hilos de la magia y el poder divino.

Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, (1859 - 1881) was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at age 21.

Seit Anbeginn der Zivilisation haben Menschen feierliche Schwüre und Eide geleistet, um Wahrhaftigkeit, Treue und Verpflichtungen zu bekräftigen.

Reminiscences of Peace and War is a book based on author's journals which is intended to contribute to public discourse about the Civil War.

Dieses eBook: "Der Virey und die Aristokraten (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

"e;Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan"e; AUTHOR described the life and adventures of his two close friends Thomas Fox and the great chief Pitamakan (Running Eagle).

From the Introduction:"e;The reader of the following pages, having already seen what has induced me to come forward with an historical account of the Indians, after so many have written on the same subject, will perhaps look for something more extraordinary in this than in other works of the kind which he has seen.

Elmer Gantry is Sinclair Lewis's caustic 1927 novel of American religious commerce, following a swaggering, morally elastic salesman of salvation from college athletics and seminary posturing into the revivalist pulpit.

"e;The Origin of the Nation"e; is an essential collection for all those who want to learn about the core of American democracy and its principles.

In the first full-scale biography of Calvin Coolidge in a generation, Robert Sobel shatters the caricature of our thirtieth president as a silent, do-nothing leader.

The Golden Dream (Adventures in the Far West) follows the fevered hopes and perils of young fortune-seekers drawn toward the California goldfields, where dreams of sudden wealth are tested by wilderness hardship, moral danger, and human companionship.

"e;This little book is intended as, and professes no more than a plain statement of facts, so that others may learn what I have read, seen and heard, without undergoing the pain of incarceration in the hands of Yankees, whose tyranny increases in proportion to the power they possess over their victims.

"e;The ceremony of dsilyidjeqacal, or mountain chant-literally, chant towards (a place) within the mountains-is one of a large number practiced by the shamans, or medicine men, of the Navajo tribe.

The Texan is a vigorous work of historical adventure, set amid the volatile borderlands and revolutionary atmosphere of early nineteenth-century Texas.

"e;What sort of combination of hypocrite and paradox is John Kerry?

The Winning of the West: A History of the American Frontiers is Theodore Roosevelt's sweeping account of Anglo-American expansion across the trans-Appalachian West, particularly in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

On the 13th September, 1759, there lay upon the bloody Plains of Abraham two men.

Was wir vom Untergang Roms für die Zukunft des Westens lernen können Der Westen befindet sich in einer Krise: Unsere Demokratie ist angeschlagen, die Deindustrialisierung bedroht den Wohlstand und Flüchtende machen sich auf in westliche Länder und stehen vor den Toren.

"e;Memoirs of an American Lady"e; is an autobiographical account of Anne Grant's time spent in America, combined with a biography of Catalina Schuyler, a member of a prominent New York family and Anne's earliest and most valued friend.

My African Journey describes Winston Churchill's journey up the Uganda Railroad.

From 1775 through 1777, George Washington and Benedict Arnold were America's two most celebrated warriors.

An undeniable attraction.

Near the end of the 19th century railroad industry in America was making a turn from iron rails to steel rails.

The American Crisis is a pamphlet series contemporaneous with the early parts of the American Revolution.